Everybody gathered in the conference room...as Teniola stepped in,she noticed the look on their faces...she did not need pity from any one of them. Pity was not going to make her company grow neither was it going to bring in new funds. So they had better get those pity-faces of theirs in the trash can and put on the ''teniola'' face.

''Goodmorning everybody'' she greeted.Different mumbles and tones of ''Goodmorning Teniola'' was said back.She scanned their faces, someone was missing, she looked around again,trying to put everybody in their places in her mind, she looked around again,yea,she knew someone was missing.

Micheal was missing.

There were a lot of whisperings in the conference room, which amounted to a little amount of noise.

And then,she voiced out at last.

''Where is micheal?''

An heavy cloud of silence fell on the room. No one could reply.**************************************

''Can someone please tell me where micheal is?'' Teniola asked,looking at the faces in front of her.''Am sorry people, this meeting will no go further if someone does not speak up.'' she said,relaxing back in her chair.*****************************He paced the room, here he was in the deepest part of the jungle and he could not even think. 'no one is going to find me ere' he thought.He had dyed his hair to a light shade of brown, as much as he wanted to keep his moustache,he had shaved it.'Where is this guy?' he murmured.He sat on the bed and kept his head in his arms.Just then there was a knock on the door. Picking up his gun,he walked slowly to the door.''Who is it?'' He asked.''Dead man walking'' the voice on the other end replied.He kept the gun at the back of his jean and opened the door.Grinning from ear to ear, Alex came in.''Hey micheal, I heard you were dead''.

''I think we should go to the office and talk about this'' Evelyn replied,looking down.

''Oh no, whatever you have to say, you say it now and in front of everyone.'' she said, not blinking.

''Ok..On ur birthday, Micheal came to my office to drop his resignation letter, he wanted to give it to you, but it was your birthday and i ddn't think he should drop something like that on you....so i...''

''Excuse me, evelyn, don't i decide what would be a shock to me, and what the heck is the big deal about my birthday?...so because its my birthday, you thought i couldn't cope with a resignation letter?'' Teniola cut in.

''I just ddn't want.....'' Evelyn attempted to reply.

''I think you have said enough,evelyn'' she said looking at her face.

Turning to face the others, she said ''Every head of department should submit a summary of all that has happened between when i was here last and today, i want those set of reports on my table in 2 hours''

'' You see, Alex, I will explain to you lateron, there is no time now''

''Tell me what went down man, was it true you could not kill your boss?''

''Alex,pleeeease,not now!'' Micheal said, anger obvious in his face

''Ok, what do you need me for?'' Alex asked.

''I need you to complete what i could not finish for me.''

Raising a brow, alex asked ''Whats that?''

''Killing my boss,Teniola''*****************************2 months had passed since Teniola received micheal's resignation letter, she had employed someone else in his place but no, no one could be as efficient as micheal. She was sure the newly-employed samuel was annoyed with her especially for the first three weeks he started the job, she was always annoyed with him, made him put in extra hours and Teniola told him to re-write lots and lots of reports.

Today, early in the morning, she had received a call from her mom asking her to come see her, but she knew what her mom wanted to say. ''Marriage'' she dreaded that word, why she couldnt get pregnant by accessing one of those sperm banks and having a child or two without people having different thoughts was annoying. She wasn't going to allow somebody to keep a track of her whereabouts,ask why his meals aint ready, why she hadn't done the laundry yet and why she had not gotten pregnant yet.

She was not ready for such a life but anyways she would go to her mom's place and pretend as if she did not know what she wanted to say.

it seems like you have a good storyline going there. But i must advise that you make the necessary investigation that will make the story real yet fiction. for example if you are describing a medical condition please dont just use everyday words like just memory loss there is more to having memory loss and the after effects. It is fiction yet so real when a writer knows what he is talking about and can make readers feel and imagine every word and every action or event described. If you are going to use places make sure you are at least familiar and can transport the place into a readers imagination. Please do consider all this in your writing. Hope you dont get writers block and can give us a good time.

This is d most sensible post/follow-up on nairaland; with a good and strong storyline and d best comments (devoid of sentiments, abusive language and ethnicity) by nairalanders. P.S. Pls keep it up, cos d sky is too close to be ur limit.